Star Sports, ICC unveil high profile commentary panels
Star Sports, the broadcaster, and the International Cricket Council (ICC), the organizer of the World Cup, have unveiled a high-profile star cast for the showpiece event. The broadcaster’s panel includes both Indian and global names for the event taking place from October 5 to November 19.
Indian broadcasters include Sunil Gavaskar, Ravi Shastri, K Srikkanth, Gautam Gambhir, Irfan Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Piyush Chawla, and S Sreesanth, who will be joined by MSK Prasad, Sandeep Patil, and Sunil Joshi.
On the international side, experts joining the broadcaster include Eoin Morgan, Shane Watson, Aaron Finch, Matthew Hayden, Ricky Ponting, Waqar Younis, Dale Steyn, Shane Bond, Shaun Pollock, Kevin Pietersen, Faf du Plessis, and Imran Tahir. They will be joined by Dinesh Karthik, Mohammed Kaif, Anjum Chopra, and Mithali Raj.
Commentators in the regional language among others are S Badrinath, Murali Vijay, Yomahesh Vijayakumar, Russel Arnold, Hemang Badani, S Ramesh (Tamil), Venugopal Rao, T Suman, Ashish Reddy, Kalyan Krishna (Telugu), Vinay Kumar, Gundappa Viswanath, Vijay Bharadwaj, Bharath Chipli, Pavan Deshpande, Akhil Balachandra (Kannada), Nayan Mongia, Manan Desai, Akash Trivedi, Deep Vaidya (Gujarati) Amol Muzumdar, Lalchand Rajput, Pravin Tambe (Marathi), Tinu Yohannan, Raiphi Gomez (Malayalam, A Jhunjhunwala, and Ashoke Dinda (Bengali).
The ICC panel, which will be part of the global feed, includes Ian Smith, Ricky Ponting, Eoin Morgan, Shane Watson, Lisa Sthalekar, Ramiz Raja, Ravi Shastri, Aaron Finch, Sunil Gavaskar, and Matthew Hayden. Also, Nasser Hussain, Ian Bishop, Waqar Younis, Shaun Pollock, Anjum Chopra, Michael Atherton, Simon Doull, Mpumelelo Mbangwa, Sanjay Manjrekar, Katey Martin, Dinesh Karthik, Dirk Nannes, Samuel Badree, Athar Ali Khan, Russel Arnold, Harsha Bhogle, Kass Naidoo, Mark Nicholas, Natalie Germanos, Mark Howard, and Ian Ward.
